Garden Answers

Garden Answers is a vibrant and inspiring gardening magazine filled with ingenious design ideas and exciting plant combinations guaranteed to make your garden beautiful.

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Celebrate FESTIVE ACCENTS • Just as you decorate your home for the festive season, adding a few seasonal planted baskets and accessories to your garden will lift festive spirits both indoors and out

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Festive Red • Berry-red gardening tools, clothing and gift ideas to add to your Christmas list

Wish list

Christmas blooms

GARDEN IN THE RUINS

WIN AN ARTHUR JACK BOOT SCRAPER WORTH £120

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Light Shows

Gardeners’ BOOKSHELF

Get winter container WOW FACTOR • In the darker months a cheerful container filled with select winter beauties adds interest to any garden. Choose festive red berries, silvery foliage plants or pastel-shaded early blooms for bright-spot focal points that last into spring

Make a leafy adventhanger

Glowing WINTER GARDENS

Capture winter cheer with SASANQUA CAMELLIAS • A lovely delicate perfume accompanies these gorgeous flowers that lift our spirits, says Sue Fisher

December • Although there’s less to do in the garden this month, make the most of sunny days to prune climbing roses and certain trees, and start a ‘dead hedge’ for wildlife. Plus it’s the ideal time to clear out your tool shed

Clean up YOUR SHED

Add structural EVERGREENS

Tales from a wildlife-friendly garden • Adrian Thomas shares some of the lessons he’s learned transforming a surburban garden into a wildlife haven over the past seven years

“I like feminine, curving shapes” • Once summer’s plants have dissappeared the fascinating shapes within Lucy Nelson’s Arts and Crafts style garden in Somerset can be appreciated in full

LUCY’S FAVOURITES

“We had icicles more than two feet long!” • Reliably hard winters mean the Curtis’ family garden in Scotland becomes a frosted wonderland at Christmas time

WINTER’S GUARD OF HONOUR • The stately topiary at this majestic old garden stands in its full grandeur this month

Life on the VEG PATCH • Small is beautiful this month as Alice Whitehead explores the beauty of seeds and seed heads

Ask the Experts

Q&A • Can we stop apple brown rot? How do I get rid of moss in lawns? Read on...

Rid the rot

Design Solutions

Festive GIFT GUIDE

Bring the outside in FOR CHRISTMAS

Shiny NEW KIT

Wildlife LOVERS

For houseplant For houseplant LOVERS

Gardening LUXURIES

Just for FUN

GARDENERS Little

DAINTY SNOWDROPS

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Win these gardening goodies! • Enter this month’s crossword and you could win one of two WOLF-Garten folding pruning saws worth £44.99 each! The entry form is overleaf

“Minimise impact and maximise resilience” • As this year’s weather went off the scale, Rupert Paul urges gardeners to respond positively to the challenges